Did journalism’s business model distort journalism’s social mission?
23 October 2008Geneva Overholser admits, “I realized today to my amazement that I may long have been a secret disciple of Milton Friedman.”
“The famed laissez-faire economist held that business and mission don’t go together, according to Adlai Wertman, of USC’s Marshall School of Business. ‘And I’m not sure I disagree with him,’ Wertman told students and faculty at this week’s USC Annenberg Director’s Forum. ‘I’m not sure I trust business with anything else.’”
Wertman believes it’s absolutely possible to create new mission-driven models for journalism that also allow journalists to make a living.
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